Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More territory" is of course merely representative of power on a world scale; the U.S. would still not fight, or even impose an economic embargo, to prevent Italian acquisition of Tunis. Still, the poll means that Americans have finally realized that their nation is a part of the world; that Britain, long the strategically dominating factor in Europe and the first line of defense for America's isolationism, no longer holds that position; that Berlin is closer--several days closer, by steamship--to Rio de Janiero than is New York; and that, as the President yesterday said, "democracies...
During 1938 Dictator Mussolini was only a decidedly junior partner in the firm of Hitler & Mussolini, Inc. His noisy agitation to get Corsica and Tunis from France was rated as a weak bluff whose immediate objectives were no more than cheaper tolls for Italian ships in the Suez Canal and control of the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad...
...religion, the two outstanding figures of 1938 were in sharp contrast save for their opposition to Adolf Hitler. One of them, Pope Pius XI, 81, spoke with "bitter sadness" of Italy's anti-Semitic laws, the harrying of Italian Catholic Action groups, the reception Mussolini gave Hitler last May, declared sadly: "We have offered our now old life for the peace and prosperity of peoples. We offer it anew." By spending most of the year in a concentration camp, Protestant Pastor Martin Niemoller gave courageous witness to his faith...
Long before the Case of the Dirty Shirt, there had been reports that serious internal disorders were disturbing the Rightist side of Spain's civil war. The reports were re-newed and amplified last week. Italian and Spanish officers were said to have wrangled and fought each other in many cities. People who reached the French border from Burgos said 45 Italians had been waylaid and hanged outside that city, that the 11th Field Artillery there had mutinied. Arrests were put at from...
...large-scale revolt against Generalissimo Franco had materialized, but reports, rumors and facts did provide some inescapable conclusions: 1) there was widespread if suppressed disaffection in Insurgent Spain; 2) the slogan "Spain for the Spaniards," introduced by grapevine from Loyalist Spain, was making trouble for Generalissimo Franco's Italian allies; 3) the Loyalists had an efficient espionage service in their enemy's territory...